The Hope pioneer., 1887-07-29
The onions were about two inches high,

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have covered the ground an inch deep
and his onions would have done finely.
Onions should be sown on the same
ground year after year. as they continue
to improve. There are yards ahundred
years old, and their yield would aston
lsh the common grower. The tops
when cut off should be scattered over
theground (do notleave themi in lumps),
as they make the best food for the grow
ing onions; then SOW salt, and then put
on coat of manure. Salt is not much
OF fertilizer in Itself, though plants
take it up, as you can tell by tasting
and by the stitfening and glazing Of
straw OF plant grown in salted ground.
l think it acts upon and assimilates the
the gross matter in the soil, so as to
make it available food. 1t should be in
every garden.
BEEF AND WHEAT.
With beef at 81 cents pound and
flour at 81 so a barrel, sentiment may
advocate raising beef and growing
wheat, but it is not business. We
take the business end and CLAIM:
that the extension of either at
the present time cannot be encouraged.
we would not advocate changing base
with every turn of the tide, and while
the outlook is not encouraging for spec
lal efforts in beef raising, yet there is
still chance to raise steers on the farm
for the double purpose of work and beef,
and between the two get something of
profit out of the operation. This is what
many farmers are doing, and we believe
they should continue it whether prices
are high or low. Still there is nothing
in the outlook to encourage large opera
tions in this line of work.
THOROUGH WORK.
There is little use to hope for success
without using proper efforts. In the
the growing of crops there must be
suitable preparation of soil, and if there
are cultivated crops the soil must be
well worked.
We have in field planted to corn; it
was well plowed, Thoroughly manured,
and the planting properly attended to,
but the crop was hoed only once. The
early growth was vigorous and promis-
ing, but the failure to hoe the second
time caused partial failure in the ear
ing.
A neighbor thought to secure a crop
OF rye by sowing a cornfield after sim
ply narrowing the field on the removal
OF the corn, and the present condition
fully shows the lack of suitable seed
bed. The rye is thin and small short
growth, while the other and well pre-
pared fields show the plant six feet in
heigth, with heads fully developed and
promising good crop upon soil no bet
ter than the field first named. There is
no kind of business that shows neglect
sooner than farming.
FARMERS P1CNIcs.
Farmers will soon be holding open air
meetings; and there is no better music
than the human voice forsuch occasions.
Give us vocal music at these gatherings
by all MEANS Good singing at any
place is sweet, but out in the grove it
has a peculiar charm to the listener.
How well do remember some charm
ing singing that I heard years ago in a
pleasant grove overlooking the depot
and village, with fertile fields in the
background, in the town Of Danbury,
N. H., participated in by those most
excellent singers, in that cosy rural
town, assisted by Andover talent. This
town of which l write, although quite
broken, can boast of beautiful scenery,
some very fertile farms Especially in
the "Wild Meadows" section), and
singers such as but very few rural
towns in New Hampshire, probably, can
lay claim to. Farmers may well take
a day for recreation now and then, and
the picnic, if it be in a pleasant place,
will long be remembered as a happy
occasion.
KAvAGEs OF CUT WORMS.
The simplest and most effective reme-
dy for these destructive pests, which
eat the plants off just beneath the sur
face of the soil, is to apply a solution
of saltpetre around each hill close to the
plants. The proportion of saltpetre
necessary is a tablespoonful to a gallon
of water. The quantity usually recon-
mended in only a tablespoonful to a
pail of water, but there in not the slight
est danger of injuring the plants by
making the solution as strong as recon-
mended. On the contrary, it seems to
promote their growth. There is no
doubt that cornfelds might be protected
from the ravage of this greedy pest by
applying the above remedy. With a
barrel of solution at each end of the
cornteld, and a couple of good-sized
watering pots, the labor of applying is
not nearly as great as it would appear
at first thought.
APPLES FOR THE WEST
A correspondent of the Rural World,
after testing over fifty varieties, writes
that for commercial orchard in South
west Missouri he would plant Ben
Davis and Jonathan, and for spring
market the red Romantic. Jonathan
and Grimes Golden, which are winter
apples in the north, become fall varie-
ties in that region. The Ben Davis has
brought more money than any other
sort. and it will continue to do so while
dealers buy to please the eye only
Baldwin, yellow bellflower and WAGNER
do not succeed there.
GREEN MANURING.
H. Ives, in Cultivator: I plpwc
under very heavy crop of cora he
last of September. BY weighing a |
section of it, L found it to average
between thirty and forty tons to the |